BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW
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By WKBW News
January 19, 2012Updated Jan 19, 2012
BUFFALO, NY ( WKBW ) Rev. Secondo Casarotto was placed on administrative leave from his position as pastor for St. Anthony of Padua Church in downtown Buffalo, after allegations surfaced that the priest sexually assaulted a woman parishioner in 2009.
According the Florida based attorney for the victim, the woman went to St. Anthony’s in the summer of 2009 to meet with Father Casarotto about a sick relative.
According to attorney Adam Horowitz, the priest began to show the woman around the rectory, and allegedly took her to his bedroom, where he asked her to sit on the bed.
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